Newcomen's many silent YouTube films prove that his trip was FOR REALZ. Many show him standing in front of state parks, post offices, and other government-funded places — funny, that!...Newcomen paid for the trip himself, which means that he also built his own roads and highways to travel on and used GPS technology that had no relationship to that which the Department of Defense originally developed. Also, when eating at truck stop restaurants, he insisted on going back to the kitchen to cook for and serve himself.